Banana and Walnut Cake -Janie

I am going away for a few days and had some old bananas to use up, what a great excuse to make my favourite banana loaf cake!

Ingredients

175g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2 tsp salt
125g melted butter
150g golden caster sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
4 small (or 2 large) bananas
100g walnut pieces
100g sultanas

 Fan Oven at 170 degrees

Method

1. Put the oven on to warm up.
2. Mix all dry ingredients (except the sultanas and nuts) in one bowl.
3. Melt the butter and add sugar and vanilla essence, mix well.
4. Mash the bananas and add to the butter mixture.
5. Crack the eggs into the wet mixture and combine well.
6. Add the flour a tablespoon at a time and mix well after adding each spoonful.
7. Add the nuts and sultanas and combine.
8. Pour into a large loaf tin lined with baking parchment.
9. Bake for 1 hour, or until well risen and a skewer comes out clean.
10. Cool in the tin then eat! 

This cake is really forgiving if you want to make changes such as leaving out sultanas or nuts, I used to make it with dairy free spread and it tastes just as good. I've never tried but I bet chocolate chips would be great too. Let us know how you get on,
Janie x

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